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Assembly and Tracking of Microbial Community Development within a Microwell Array Platform

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Global assembly of microbial communities.

Jianing Wang¹, Zhuo Pan¹, Jianshui Yu¹

¹State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Institute of Microbial Technology, Shandong University , Qingdao, China.

|May 17, 2023

Summary

Microbial community assembly globally involves equal deterministic and stochastic processes. Deterministic processes dominate in free-living and plant-associated environments, while stochastic processes prevail in animal-associated ones.

Keywords:

community-internal influences core microorganisms deterministic and stochastic processes earth microbiome project microbial community assembly source track

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Area of Science:

Microbial Ecology
Community Assembly
Environmental Microbiology

Background:

Microbial communities vary across habitats with complex assembly mechanisms.
Understanding microbial community assembly is crucial for ecological insights.
The Earth Microbiome Project (EMP) provides a vast dataset for global analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate global microbial community assembly mechanisms.
To determine the influence of community-internal factors on assembly.
To differentiate assembly processes across various environments.

Main Methods:

Analysis of the Earth Microbiome Project (EMP) dataset.
Utilized a combined pipeline for comprehensive analysis.
Employed PICRUSt for functional gene prediction.

Main Results:

Global microbial assembly is driven by nearly equal deterministic and stochastic processes.
Deterministic processes are key in free-living and plant-associated environments; stochastic in animal-associated.
Functional gene assembly is primarily deterministic across all communities.

Conclusions:

Microbial assembly mechanisms show environment-specific patterns.
Deterministic processes correlate with higher alpha diversity and microbial interaction.
Findings offer a global perspective on microbial community assembly and diversity regulation.